Lately we’ve been spending time in Genentech’s beautiful new building 35 in South San Francisco to install a new multi-user touch wall. The lobby display informs employees of news and events from Genentech’s “gView” intranet as they pass through the common space, and includes live energy and water usage data from sensors in the building.…
As part of Stimulant’s focus on smart spaces, we are always evaluating products and technologies that help us determine the position of people and objects in space. One exciting technology is RFID, which enables tracking of small “tags” which can be embedded into badges or other objects given to visitors to a space. The RFID…
We’ve added a new press section to our home page to keep up with the surge in coverage lately. This month Darren and Nathan appeared in two interviews to discuss the modern event experience with Agency Post and best practices for designing for public space in HOW Magazine. Also this month, our Pipeline Explorer exhibit…
At Stimulant we consider it very important to know how our installations are doing out in the wild, whether they are permanent or temporary. To that end we’ve developed a toolkit referred to as “ampm”, which quickly adds monitoring and management functions to our applications without much work from the application developer. It’s now standard…
Stimulant loves Carnegie Mellon University, having two alumni among our ranks. Joel Pryde, our most senior developer, and Nathan Moody, our design director, both emerged from the school. However, they didn’t have the good fortune to attend the Entertainment Technology Center, a program that’s tailor-made for the sort of work that Stimulant does. Students in…
In partnership with the Microsoft Cube team, Stimulant has released a toolkit which attempts to ease many of the challenges associated with developing experiences for the Microsoft Cube. The toolkit is also helpful for anyone building applications which use multiple Kinect for Windows v2 sensors, just in case you haven’t been had the chance to…
Stimulant’s most senior developer, Joel Pryde, will be presenting at NVIDIA’s NVScene 2015 event in San Jose, which runs March 17-20. It’s a great place for creative coders, demoscene hackers, and GPU nerds to get together, talk technique, and play with the newest products. Joel’s talk is entitled Creative Interactive Visuals for Large Audiences, and…
